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Save the dates - Q-Step Seminar Series - Semester 2 - 2022-23 

23 JAN 1-2PM - Children growing up with domestic abuse – insights from longitudinal survey data - Valeria Skafida

Valeria Skafida is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Her research uses mostly longitudinal social survey data to look at changes in children’s health and wellbeing over time. She is currently undertaking longitudinal quantitative research to explore how children are affected by growing up in homes where mothers experience domestic abuse.

20 FEB 1-2PM - Affective Partisan Sorting in the UK: Turbulent Times - Ugur Ozdemir

Ugur Ozdemir is a Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include comparative political behaviour, formal models of electoral politics, and quantitative methods. He is a dedicated advocate of bridging the gap between theoretical modelling and empirical analysis.

6 MAR 1-2PM - Violence Exposure and Changes in Fertility Desires During the Drug Wars in Mexico - Ginevra Floridi

Ginevra Floridi is a Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests lie in social and family demography, with a focus on intergenerational transfers, family care and their relationship to inequality and social mobility. She is also interested in welfare states and the interactions between societal factors and individual outcomes. Her primary methods of analysis include multilevel models, multivariate analysis and causal inference methods.

20 MAR 1-2PM - Mapping Retrofitting Supply Chains in the UK - Yujia Han

Yujia Han is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions at the University of Edinburgh. Yujia’s primary research focus is buyer-supplier relationship in the context of engineer-to-order infrastructure supply chains. She is particularly interested in exploring how social network theory contributes to non-linear, non-successive relationships in supply networks. Yujia previously worked as a senior buyer in the oil and gas industry.

3 APR 1-2PM - The Temporal Organisation of Paid Work in the UK - Roxanne Connelly

Roxanne Connelly is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods at the University of Edinburgh. Her research uses large scale longitudinal social survey and administrative data resources to study the reproduction of social inequalities in British society. Her methodological interests include longitudinal data analysis, latent variable models and open social science.